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stemmed

stemmed

3.1
Having a long thin part that holds the top, like a wine glass or flower
  • adjective
  • /stɛməd/
translation icon : con tallo
  • The florist arranged a beautiful bouquet of stemmed roses for the wedding.

Partially broken young black girl presenting A stemmed bowl supported by a monkey.

Examples

  • She admired the stemmed glass filled with sparkling water on the table.

  • Partially broken young black girl presenting A stemmed bowl supported by a monkey.

  • And hot chocolate being for the elite and for the exclusive stemmed hundreds of chocolate houses.

  • The plant's stemmed leaves reached towards the sunlight streaming through the window.

Antonyms

5.7

Without a stalk joining a leaf, flower, mushroom, or glass to its base

Compounds

9.9

A fern that grows in warm parts of the Americas

A North American wildflower with bent stems and small daisy-like flowers

A plant with a stem shaped like a round tube

A plant with many leaves on its stem

A plant with two or more stems that grow from the base

purple-stemmed aster
  • Specialized
9.0

A wildflower with purple stems and clusters of violet or blue flowers

7.9

A plant from North America with rough stems and small yellow flowers

A plant that has a thick stem compared to its height

short-stemmed
  • Specialized
3.8

With a short stem, like some plants or flowers

A plant with a stem covered in sharp spines or thorns

stout-stemmed
  • Specialized
6.5

Having a thick, strong stem that supports the plant

A plant with stems too weak to hold it upright

white-stemmed filaree
  • Specialized
9.9

A low plant from Europe that lives for one year, has white stems, and grows wild in fields

A thin strong plant stem that bends like wire

woody-stemmed
  • Specialized
5.6

A plant with a hard wooden stem that lives many years

woolly-stemmed
  • Specialized
7.7

A plant stem covered with soft hairs like wool

How Stemmed

caulescent
  • Specialized
9.9
stemmed
3.1
stemless
5.7

Surface Forms

stemmed positive

Morphology

stemmed = stem (transparent) = stem + ed

Direct adjectival formation from 'stem' with the productive suffix '-ed' meaning 'having a stem or stems'.

Etymology

Stemmed comes from the simple word stem, meaning the thin support or 'stalk' of a plant or a glass. So when something is stemmed it has that long support or stalk attached.